Quote

Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.

David Eagleman

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

David Eagleman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 25
Author
Neuroscientist
Psychologist
Researcher
University Teacher
Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
David Eagleman
Introduce
Blowing
Introducing
Next
Going
Mind
Years
Things
Neuroscience

More quotes by David Eagleman

Image
Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a teaming up of the internal rivals - is optimal for brains. ... Some balance of the emotional and rational systems is needed, and that balance may already be optimized by natural selection in human brains.
David Eagleman
Image
Once you begin deliberating about where your fingers are jumping on the piano keyboard, you can no longer pull off the piece.
David Eagleman
Image
One of the most pervasive mistakes is to believe that our visual system gives a faithful representation of what is out there in the same way that a movie camera would.
David Eagleman
Image
Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.
David Eagleman
Image
The brain runs its show incognito.
David Eagleman
Image
If you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight hundred and eighty-two percent.
David Eagleman
Image
You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.
David Eagleman
Image
Who we can be begins with our molecular blueprints - a series of alien codes penned in invisibly small strings of acids - well before we have anything to do with it. We are a product of our inaccessible, microscopic history.
David Eagleman
Image
Just like a good drama, the human brain runs on conflict.
David Eagleman
Image
The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass.
David Eagleman
Image
Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.
David Eagleman
Image
Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.
David Eagleman
Image
We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.
David Eagleman
Image
It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.
David Eagleman
Image
At least 15 percent of human females possess a genetic mutation that gives them an extra (fourth) type of color photoreceptor - and this allows them to discriminate between colors that look identical to the majority of us with a mere three types of color photoreceptors.
David Eagleman
Image
If choices and decisions derive from hidden mental processes, then free choice is either an illusion or, at minimum, more tightly constrained than previously considered.
David Eagleman
Image
Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.
David Eagleman
Image
You are more likely to believe that a statement is true if you have heard it before - whether or not it is actually true.
David Eagleman
Image
If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them.
David Eagleman
Image
As we develop better technologies for probing the brain, we detect more problems.
David Eagleman